have some girls pledged two sororities?

If that actually happens, that is so rude. I can't believe people would be willing to take anyone the following year who acted like that.

Oh, it happens every year. That's why they pledge so many. And it's stupid - GPB is OK. They do the same things the "big 6" do, and have the same types of girls. But anybody who would do that - who needs 'em?

Lol Rachel starkey.

Because they didn't think they would get their second or third choice. Rho chis pretty much push you to put all 3 of your houses down even if you aren't sure about all of them because the chance of getting your third choice is small, but it does happen. As long as you put all 3 down, you are guaranteed a bid on bid day. If you don't, you aren't guaranteed anywhere. So girls open their bid cards on bid day expecting to get their top choice and then they get their third choice. I definitely don't agree with not showing up for bid day, but I've seen a few of my friends be so disappointed.

But you aren't guaranteed a bid to your 1st choice sorority if you put all 3. You're guaranteed a bid to the 1st 2nd OR 3rd. Not necessarily the 1st. So if you will ONLY run to your new home on bid day if you get ABC, then what is the point of listing DEF and XYZ just so you'll be guaranteed a bid (possibly to a house you don't want?)

Because if you get cross cut but list all three, you're eligible for quota additions and could very well get your first or second choice house. If you don't, you could get cross cut and have nothing. I do think that if you're not willing to even run to the house on bid day you're probably a real betch and I wouldn't want you in my house.

I guess you're right. And agreed about the last part. Ugh. Its a tough situation. You have to know the girl's bid day buddy is just crushed when she doesn't have anyone run home to her and she just has an extra t-shirt and sign with a girl's name on it who rejected them. I would be devastated if that happened to me :(

What is a cross cut?

It's really not rude. if you do accept a bid to a house that you don't like, and then end up dropping, many sororities will not rush you the next year. Many houses have a rule that they cannot rush someone who has already accepted a bid in a previous year. So really, they're keeping their options open for the future. They might want to pull their grades up and rush the next year in hopes of pledging a better house.

I could be wrong about this but isn't signing your MRBRA (or whatever it is) on pref technically accepting your bid? Even if you don't show up on bid day, you are bound to that bid for a whole year. The chapters get the lists, so unless you really make a good connection or something there's a pretty low chance of you getting a bid the second time around

Oh also. Getting cross cut is something you don't have to worry about because we have preventative measures against it, but basically it's when the order of the chapters on a PNM's pref list and the placement of the PNM on the house's bid lists are in such a way that she is too low on the lists to receive a bid from any of the houses she preffed. Here, if you attend pref (and you don't suicide, or skip a party), you are guaranteed a bid thanks to quota additions.

Signing that means you have to "accept" the bid in the sense that you cannot take part in COR/COB for a whole year. It by no means obligates you to be initiated into the sorority that you received a bid to. Remember that no one officially joins a sorority until she is initiated. Receiving a bid is just un-officially being able to join.

If you list ANY house you would refuse to join, you must realize there is a chance - and not a small one - that you'll go there.
And what would it hurt to show up? I think if more girls who do this had stuck around, at least for two or three weeks, and tried it out, there would be fewer to resign.
But 18-year-olds aren't the brightest chicks.

And yes, it IS rude to sign that card - which is a promise and a contract - and then not even show up.
But kids (and moms) often hear what they want to hear and tune out anything they don't like.

It's not sad. Trust me, anyone who wants gphib will have no problem getting gphib. If they didn't show up at bid day, most likely that means that gphib was her very last option, meaning girls who wanted them would've already been chosen. It's not a sad situation at all. That's why gphib pledges 160 girls instead of 110 like the rest. Panhellenic gives them 160 because they are very aware that their retention rate is so low. It's a strategic math problem, it's already planned out beforehand so it doesn't actually hurt gphib.

This was definitely true in the past, I don't think they were even making quota until 07 or 08. I heard they will only be taking quota plus a few this year though. With how big quota is supposed to be this fall I'm not surprised, they won't need the extra girls.

How many PNMs are y'all expecting this fall?

Probably 2,500, or close to it.

It's happened to other sororities, not just GPB.